From Sin to Salvation: Stories of Women's Conversions, 1800 to the PresentIndiana University Press, 22 de jul. 1991 - 152 pàgines "... fascinating... " -- Theological Book Review By examining women's conversion experiences, the author provides a corrective to the much popularized TV evangelism. She examines the stories U.S. women have told of their profound realization of their sinfulness and the necessity of turning to God's grace and love for forgiveness. |
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NineteenthCentury Conversion Narratives | 1 |
TWO The Language of the Convert | 14 |
THREE The NineteenthCentury Narrative and the Lives | 28 |
TwentiethCentury Conversion Narratives | 41 |
FIVE Finding Words for New Experiences | 61 |
SIX Establishing the TwentiethCentury Text | 73 |
SEVEN The Meanings of the TwentiethCentury Narratives | 89 |
EIGHT TwentiethCentury OutofChurch Narratives | 102 |
Conclusion | 123 |
Selected Bibliography | 144 |
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From Sin to Salvation: Stories of Women's Conversions, 1800 to the Present Virginia Lieson Brereton Previsualització no disponible - 1991 |
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Pàgina 127 - I WAITED patiently for the Lord ; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Pàgina 86 - And he walks with me, and he talks with me, and he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known.
Pàgina 19 - It has often appeared to me, that if God should mark iniquity against me, I should appear the very worst of all mankind; of all that have been, since the beginning of the world to this time; and that I should have by far the lowest place in hell.
Pàgina 64 - Abraham, that He would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life.
Pàgina 128 - There are only two ways in which it is possible to get rid of anger, worry, fear, despair, or other undesirable affections. One is that an opposite affection should overpoweringly break over us, and the other is by getting- so exhausted with the struggle that we have to stop, — so we drop down, give up, and don't care any longer.
Pàgina 64 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Pàgina 130 - I have had frequent opportunities of observing their conduct. Very often their experience at first appears like a confused chaos, but then those parts are selected which bear the nearest resemblance to such particular steps as are insisted on ; and these are dwelt upon in their thoughts, and spoken of from time to time, till they grow more and more conspicuous in their view, and other parts which are neglected grow more and more obscure. Thus what they have experienced is insensibly strained, so...
Pàgina 141 - Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972); a more compact account is by Winthrop S.